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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:38:41 +0000danjcolhttps://gamerree.com/2015/03/02/today-in-gaming-02-03-2015-stealth-inc-2-goes-multiplatform-and-swipe-to-finish-him/You read that right. Swipe to finish him – lacks the finesse of the old school fatalities right? Let’s get right down to explaining.

Mortal Kombat X Coming to Mobile

Warner Bros. has announced Mortal Kombat X: Mobile which will launch on iOS and Android devices in April.

Developed in tandem with the console version by NetherRealm Studios Creative Director Ed Boon promised a “unique cross-connectivity feature that links the mobile and console versions of Mortal Kombat X, delivering unique rewards to all players for simply playing the mobile game.”

NetherRealm describes the mobile version as “a hybrid of fighting, card collecting, multiplayer team combat and more”. The also promise all of the Mortal Kombat staples you’d expect will feature: “shocking Fatalities, legendarycharacters like Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Raiden”.

The PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions of Mortal Kombat X will be available worldwide on 14th April,

Stealth Inc 2 is Going Multiplatform

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones now has a confirmed release date for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC.

Initially launched as a Wii U exclusive this sequel will go multi-platform in April 2015.

Stealth Inc 2 received a mixed reception critically as the follow up to the well received original (also know as Stealth Bastard)

Trine 3 Announced

Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power has been announced by developer Frozenbyte.

The latest instalment in the successful puzzle adventure series will launch in 2015 “initially on PC” according to the developer, implying there’s hope for a console version.

Trine 3 sounds pretty similar to it’s predecessors. Here’s the official blurb

“The Three Heroes embark on a new adventure through an enchanting fairytale world full of wonders, puzzles, dangerous foes and strange magic – coming 2015!”

New Amplitude Trailer

Harmonix has revealed the first ever gameplay trailer of their upcoming instalment in the long dormant Amplitude Series.

With PAX East around the corner and Amplitude set to show Art Director Ryan Lesser spoke at length about the game on Playstation Blog.

As well as showing of a short trailer Lesser also spoke about a new feature coming called Team Play. Lesser described it saying:

Team play is something we’d never done in Amplitude before, and allowing players to team up 2v2 or even 3v1 sounded like an amazing way to even the playing field without disrupting the current design. We decided to give it a shot, and after some iteration and tweaking, we are proud to say that it’s already super fun.”

No solid release date is yet set for Amplitude. But 2015 would be a good estimate.

EA Reveals Battlefield Hardline Premium Membership perks

EA has revealed the benefits of their Battlefield Hardline Premium membership program.

Players who opt in for £39.99 in UK and $50 in the States will get access to four “super features”.Firs up are new player masks that grant wearers unique gameplay benefits tied to the masks theme. Then there’s acces to the Gun Bench which allows players visually customize their weapons and track their kills per weapon. Next is Competitive Play through Battlefield Hardline Premium-access only tournaments and ladders. And Finally Legendary Status which allows players to replay of the entire progression system.

On top of that subscribers will get early access to all of Hardline’s content expansions: Criminal Activity, Robbery, Getaway and Betrayal. Each periodically released between Summer ’15 and early ’16.

This new edition is in paperback format and is published by Wipf & Stock of Eugene, Oregon, with a Foreward by Eric McLuhan. This is from the Author’s Note to the original edition, published by McGraw-Hill in 1970 in hardcover:

This book is not about ads, but about our time. However, if some archaeologist in some remote future were to get access to the ads that appear in this book, he would consider himself very fortunate. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. While the Twenties talked about the caveman and people thrilled to the art of the Altamira Caves, they ignored (as we do now) the hidden environment of magical forms which we call “ads”. Like cave paintings, ads are not intended to be looked at or seen, but rather to exert influence at a distance, as though by ESP. Like cave paintings, they are not means of private but of corporate expression. They are vortices of collective power, masks of energy invented by new tribal man.

About

Culture Is Our Business is Marshall McLuhan’s sequel to The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. Returning to the subject of advertising newly armed with the electric sensibility that informed The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media, and The Medium Is the Massage, McLuhan takes on the mad men (a play on the ad men of Madison Avenue) of the sixties. Approaching commercial messages as unacknowledged art forms and cultural artifacts, McLuhan delivers a series of probes that pick apart their meanings and underlying values, their paradoxes and paralogisms, and their overt function as persuasion and propaganda. Through humor, satire, and a poetic sensibility, he provides us with a serious exploration of the consumer culture that emerged out of the electronic media environment. In keeping with the participatory ethos of the Internet that McLuhan so clearly anticipated, this is a book that is meant to open the door to further study, reflection, and discussion, and to encourage the development of critical reception on the part of the reader.

Endorsements & Reviews

“Culture Is Our Business represents an essential component of McLuhan’s body of work and provides an important contribution to media ecology, cultural studies, and media literacy. As with most of McLuhan’s scholarship, its value and relevance has only increased since its initial publication.” – Lance Strate, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, and author of Echoes and Reflections, On the Binding Biases of Time, and Amazing Ourselves to Death

“Here is an interactive playground a la McLuhan that takes you on a hilarious and revealing journey across Western, or better, ‘American Civilization.’ Reading this book is rediscovering the brave new world of (electric) advertising in its prime; most incisively, it suggests a tactic to escape the enchanting songs of corporate art to fully see the Emperor’s new clothes.” – Elena Lamberti, Professor of North American Studies, University of Bologna, and author of Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic

The extras from World War Brick Anaheim sold out on the web site in a matter of hours. We were able to get additional quantities from BrickArms and will have them for a limited time. Notice we have added stepped discounts for quantities greater than one.

Been a busy, disorientating couple weeks. Truth be told, I haven’t spent nearly as much time as I’d wanted on creative writing and my first short story is, put politely, beyond unequivocally not ready.

I’m determined not to let the point of this site down, especially on the first try, so in a mad bid to create a sense of accountability, I have an announcement:

“Echo” will be published 10th March.

So feel free to get excited and badger me about it on Twitter because I swear, I will stick to this and I will indulge in an overblown sense of accomplishment when I’m done.

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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:48:38 +0000Lusty Soulhttps://lustysoul.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/move-complete/My last story has been moved, Turn-of-the-Year Dinner now settled in its new home, ready for your enjoyment.
I’ll be cleaning up Blogger now, and let it redirect to this place. Google can kiss our collective asses :-D

I hope I can continue to count on your love and friendship. It’s been quite a ride since I started writing my stories. Made lots of new friends, and learned a lot about people’s fantasies and desires.
I’m doing my best to free up more time; it’s been too long since I started Lady and the Vagabond, and I owe it to you, my readers, to finish it. It’s still work in progress, so stay tuned for updates.Thanks for your patience. You’re the reason why I’m doing this.

See you in your fantasies

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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:46:59 +0000Susan Schoeffieldhttps://wordswithsooze.com/2015/03/02/prompting-with-a-quill-of-hope/We’re feeling hopeful with today’s prompt at The Poetry Park because “Where There’s Hope, There’s Life.” https://wp.me/p4RUqC-4f
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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:09:56 +0000Lusty Soulhttps://lustysoul.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/gods-of-metal-online-on-wordpress/Woohoo!!The Gods of Metal, my longest story so far – with the subtitle My Night with Hans and Gretel – has made the transition from Blogger to WordPress. This story is also in need of a major overhaul, but you can read it now with a few minor edits here and there, and a little added surprise at the end ;-)
This is the story that brings all other threads together, and you can be sure that I will be returning to Hans and Gretel in a later story, yet to be written. Until then, enjoy and share with your friends
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Dear ACDC fellows,

You may have heard of the student occupation of the Bungehuis in Amsterdam. Currently they occupy the famous Maagdenhuis, the administrative HQ of the University of Amsterdam that was the centre of student protest in 1969. Their action has launched a nation-wide awakening of protest and media attention across the Netherlands. With upcoming provincial elections we must seize the day and get all the support we can.

4th March National student action day
5th March Staff meetings at various universities (@ VU: 16:00 meeting point at the VU-bookstore).

First results of this action have been local, but not insignificant. In view of democratization, students and lecturers will have a representative in the Board and some of the cutbacks for the Humanities at the UvA will be delayed. However, the problems in our universities are more structural and not only local. The general motivation behind the action and the demands is discontent with the current management culture and its negative effects. Top-down, efficiency-oriented management damages the very soul of the university as a stronghold of independent, thoughtful, articulate and innovative research and education.

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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:00:05 +0000Lindseyhttps://redeemingnaptime.com/2015/03/02/with-child-a-guest-post-series/The response was overwhelming. Granted, it took a few days. They are all mothers, after all. Each one has a lot on her plate. Those first few days were full of sweaty-handed waiting and continuous phone-checking that would rival any junior-high girl with a serious crush. After more than a year of praying and thinking and dreaming, I was waiting. Waiting to see if anyone’s heart had ever felt the same way mine did. All I had done for months was hope & pray, and once I hit that red send button, there was little I could do but hope & pray some more.

And then the ‘yeses’ started trickling in. Filling up my inbox day by day until there was a yes for every email I sent out. From women I have shared countless cups of coffee with to women I know almost entirely by the words they write online. “Yes,” each one wrote, “I will share my story.”

It has been a long time in the making- the gathering of these momma hearts. In different and deep ways, the stories these women are living flood my heart with grace, tug me closer to Jesus, make me a better mom, a better friend, a better wife.

It’s no secret that just a simple Google search will return an overwhelming amount of articles, videos, and websites that might lead us to believe being a momma is actually about the kind of diapers we use, or about how we feed our babies or clothe our babies or birth our babies, or about how many hours we spend at home or at work. I’m beginning to believe that I’m not the only one who forgets that motherhood is mainly about Jesus. How he makes us more like him. How he makes our children more like him. How he makes his name famous. How he accomplishes his mission in the world. How he allows our families to participate.

Over the next ten weeks, you are invited to join us as we tell a different story about Motherhood, as we look for Jesus, specifically in the journeys we take into motherhood. Each of these sweet women are going to share different stories of the ways that the Lord has used the journey into motherhood to make them more like him, to illuminate the gospel, and to glorify himself. I am so excited to introduce these women to you and to share their stories with you. We are excited to see what the Lord will do with these stories. Each of the next ten Tuesdays, will you join us with a cup of coffee and discover the Jesus in our stories?

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Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:39:25 +0000kluvrebekahhttps://kluv.cbslocal.com/2015/03/02/bradley-cooper-taya-kyle-are-not-getting-married/Over the weekend, there were rumors were circling that Bradley Cooper and Taya Kyle (Chris Kyle’s widow) planned to announce on stage at the Oscars after American Sniper won Best Picture that they were getting married. Since Sniper didn’t win, instead they announced it at one of the Oscar after parties.

Yes, they were together at a party, but no one can confirm this supposed announcement.There are no witnesses to the announcement. And the only “news” source to run the story is a well-known tabloid type called Real News Right Now.

By the way, if this story was true and they were getting married, I would have to step in. That would be a terrible idea on everyone’s part. There is just so much wrong with falling in love with a guy playing the role of your late husband. It would just be poor decision making on everyone’s part.

Bangkok, February 2015: Chatrium Hotels & Residences is participatingin the ITB Berlin from March 4-8, 2015 at Hall No. 26-B, Stand #228 in order to update 6 luxury and lifestyle hotels and residences; five of which are located in Bangkok, Thailand while one is in Yangon, Myanmar.

Maitria Hotel Sukhumvit 18 – A Chatrium Collection is a modern lifestyle hotel in the downtown district of Bangkok, right next to some of the city’s best shopping and dining hotspots. Offering 129 guestrooms with modern living spaces including a restaurant and bar, plunge pool, fitness center and putting green area.

Chatrium Hotel in Yangon:

Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon is a beautiful 5 star luxury hotel in the heart of Yangon, Myanmar’s premier city with magnificent views of Shwedagon Pagoda. Built in a colonial style, Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon is privileged to be recognized as one of Myanmar’s heritage hotels; showcasing the concept of a city resort while reflecting the ease and comfort of a bygone era in Myanmar. The luxurious accommodation comprises 303 spacious rooms including 37 exquisite suites; while facilities include 3 restaurants, 2 bars, meeting & conference facilities, spa, health club and a pool garden.

Chatrium Residences in Bangkok:

Chatrium Residence Sathon Bangkok offers a sanctuary away from the bustle of Bangkok whilst still minutes from the central business district and trendy shopping neighborhoods. For short or long stays, our comfort crafted studios and suites provide all the amenities of a hotel. The accommodation comprises 506 spacious rooms and suites; while facilities include 3 restaurants, 2 bars, meeting & conference facilities, spa, health club and a pool garden.

Chatrium Residence Riverside Bangkok is our 5-star serviced home away from home. Situated beside the Chao Phraya River and Chatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok, stunning views compliment new heights in comfort and convenience with all the luxuries of 5-star hotel. Spacious residences offer all the comforts of home, with a separate kitchen, washing and drying machines, cleaning services and access to a swimming pool and Fitness Center.

You are invited to experience Asia in the comfort of Chatrium’s charm, where you can live the remarkable. For more information, please visit us at www.chatrium.com

Chatrium Hotels & Residences is born from a passion to provide uncompromising, warm service and a truly captivating experience. Discover 5-star services with a charming personal touch at properties located with comfort, convenience and stunning surroundings in mind. From cosmopolitan city center living in Bangkok, to the relaxing beauty of Royal Lake in Yangon, whether on business or leisure, long stay or short; you are right where you want to be. The six properties of Chatrium include Chatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok, Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon, Emporium Suite by Chatrium, Chatrium Residence Sathon Bangkok and Chatrium Residence Riverside Bangkok. The newly launched Maitria Hotel Sukhumvit 18 is under our new A Chatrium Collection hotel brand, featuring trendy hotels in deluxe destinations that are tailored to the smart and independent traveler. Join us today and Live the Remarkable.